Knights in Arms : Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655 / Goran Stanivukovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanivukovic, Goran, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English prose literature--16th century--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

English prose literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Romances, English--History and criticism.

Romances, English.

Masculinity in literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Commerce in literature.

Travel in literature.

Geography in literature.

Chivalry in literature.

Middle East--In literature.

Middle East.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity--commercial rather than chivalric, erotic rather than militant. Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era. Goran Stanivukovic highlights how eroticism within prose romances, particularly homoerotic desire, facilitated commercial, cross-ethnic, and cross-cultural interactions, shaping European knowledge and conceptions of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire. Through his careful examination of these lesser-known works, Stanivukovic sheds important light on early modern trade, Mediterranean politics, and the changing meaning of masculinity in an age of commercial expansion."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Preface

Knights In Arms

Introduction: Mapping Territories

Part I The Knight And The Romance Of Trade

1.Purchasing Kingdoms In The Eastern Mediterranean

2. The Knight On The Silk Road

3. The Marriage Of Merchant Kingdoms In Romances About Men

Part II Intimacy, Sexuality, And The Queer Levant

4.Desire And Knightly Masculinity

5. Cruising The Eastern Mediterranean: The Knight, The Friend, The Favourite, And Homoerotic Romance

Afterword: Mediterranean Masculinities

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-256) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-1892-2

1-4426-1891-4

OCLC:

948393059